TY - GEN
T1 - Suzaku observations of AGN and synergy with GLAST
AU - Kataoka, Jun
AU - Takahashi, Tad
AU - Madejski, Greg
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In next five years, dramatic progress is anticipated for the AGN studies, as we have two important missions to observe celestial sources in the high energy regime: GLAST and Suzaku. Suzaku is the 5th Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite which was successfully launched in July 2005. It carries four X-ray sensitive imaging CCD cameras (0.2-12 keV) located in the focal planes of X-ray telescope, and a non-imaging, collimated hard X-ray detector, which extends the bandpass of the observatory to include the 10-600 keV range. Simultaneous monitoring observations by the two instruments (GLAST and Suzaku) will be particularly valuable for variable radio-loud AGN, allowing the cross-correlations of time series as well as detailed modeling of the spectral evolution between the X-ray and gamma-ray energy bands. In this paper, we show early highlights from Suzaku observations of radio-loud AGNs, and discuss what we can do with GLAST in forthcoming years.
AB - In next five years, dramatic progress is anticipated for the AGN studies, as we have two important missions to observe celestial sources in the high energy regime: GLAST and Suzaku. Suzaku is the 5th Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite which was successfully launched in July 2005. It carries four X-ray sensitive imaging CCD cameras (0.2-12 keV) located in the focal planes of X-ray telescope, and a non-imaging, collimated hard X-ray detector, which extends the bandpass of the observatory to include the 10-600 keV range. Simultaneous monitoring observations by the two instruments (GLAST and Suzaku) will be particularly valuable for variable radio-loud AGN, allowing the cross-correlations of time series as well as detailed modeling of the spectral evolution between the X-ray and gamma-ray energy bands. In this paper, we show early highlights from Suzaku observations of radio-loud AGNs, and discuss what we can do with GLAST in forthcoming years.
KW - (Galaxies:) quasars:
KW - Galaxies: Active
KW - Galaxies: Jets
KW - X-rays: Galaxies
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U2 - 10.1063/1.2757275
DO - 10.1063/1.2757275
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649778737
SN - 9780735404311
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 89
EP - 91
BT - First GLAST Symposium
T2 - 1st Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Symposium, GLAST
Y2 - 5 February 2007 through 8 February 2007
ER -